Posts Tagged datamapper

Merb 1.0 is almost ready to be pushed out and you might be impatient to start playing with some of the goodies not yet available in the latest stable release. Before getting started, you should know that not everything has been ironed out yet so don’t expect to have a fully stable Edge.

The easiest way to get started requires that you have git installed as well as a gem called thor.

I let you take care of installing git on your machine, Ruby dev without git became quite challenging since GitHub started ruling the Ruby OSS world.

sudo gem install wycats-thor -s http://gems.github.com

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Thor is a sort if mix between rake, sake with a better argument parser and based on Ruby classes.

Thor on its own won’t be very helpful, we need some thor tasks.

Create a folder where you want to store Merb’s source code and cd in it.

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Merb works very well with ActiveRecord and Sequel but most of the Merbivores get excited about DataMapper.

DataMapper has a lot of cool stuff going for it. I’m planning on writingi few articles about what I particularily like with DM and some of the misconceptions.

I’m going to give a talk about DataMapper during MerbCamp and something I want to cover is the fact that you can write DM adapters for virtually anything. From an adapter for couchdb (available in dm-more) to an adapter for SalesForce API. That’s the kind of stuff that gets me excited, a bit like what Ambition does but built-in in DM.

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Good news regarding Merb slices: the new router allows you to mount a slice directly as: /the-slice-action (previously it had to be /the-slice/something)

On IRC, Nagash came up with an interesing snippet allowing you to easily serve static views (like Django’s generic views) (Merb::Template.template_for is PRIVATE so use it at your own risk) The Core team is investigating simpler/cleaner ways of achieving the same result and a built-in solution should be available in Merb 1.1

Merb 0.9.8 will be optimized for Ruby Enterprise Edition and will be supporting a new way of handling gems without wasting so much memory. (more news coming up soon)

Merb 0.9.8 has a new efficient way of dealing with clusters (more news coming soon)